TY - BOOK AU - Christensen,Alicia TI - American lives: a reader T2 - American lives SN - 9780803234833 AV - CT211 .A478 2010eb U1 - 920.02 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press KW - Autobiographies KW - United States KW - États-Unis KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Historical KW - bisacsh KW - Reference KW - fast KW - Biography KW - Biographies KW - Electronic books N1 - Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; "Long Live the Red Terror!"; Moving Water, Tucson; Winter 1997; The Weight of Spoons; Hard Luck Suit; Fortuna; The Boys of Summer; Excerpt from "Winter"; Son of Mr. Green Jeans:A Meditation on Missing Fathers; Good, Alright, Fine; Acting; And There Fell a Great Star; Not Coming Out; Excerpt from Phantom Limb; Alternatives, 1979; Excerpt from "The Second Trimester"; A Measure of Acceptance; The New Kitchen; One I Love, Two I Love; Excerpt from"The Promise of Power"; Source Acknowledgments; Contributors; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011 N2 - Memoirs are as varied as human emotion and experience, and those published in the distinguished American Lives Series run the gamut. Excerpted from this series (called "splendid" by Newsweek) and collected here for the first time, these dispatches from American lives take us from China during the Cultural Revolution to the streets of New York in the sixties to a cabin in the backwoods of Idaho UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=314486 ER -